Category: Awards

The Red House Children’s Book Award is the only national UK book award that is voted on entirely by children. Children’s votes create the shortlist of titles and then select the winner in three categories. The book with the most total votes also wins the overall award. Here are this year’s winners:

The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader have announced the finalists for the 2015 Children’s Choice Book Awards. The awards are given in seven categories and youth across the nation vote on the winners. Finalists are chosen by votes from thousands of children and teens. The winners will be announced during Children’s Book Week, May 4-10.

YALSA has selected the 2015 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. The list includes 79 titles that are recommended for ages 12-18 and that are both high quality and appealing to a teen audience. They also select a Top Ten which you see below:

The books should focus on human relations, represent a variety of cultures and have an original theme or perspective. Books are selected in a variety of age categories: Kindergarten to 2nd grade, 3rd to 5th grade, 6th to 8th grade, and 9th to 12th grade. The books include both fiction and nonfiction titles.

The shortlist has been announced for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. There are 18 books on the shortlist for this British children’s book prize and refreshingly 15 of them are by women. The winner in each category as well as the overall winner will be announced on March 26.

The Rainbow Project is a joint project of the ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table. Each year they select The Rainbow List, books with “significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18.”

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi have announced the winners of the 2015 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. The award celebrates a new writer and a new illustrator of children’s books each year.

The Association for Library Service to Children have announced their list of the 2015 Notable Children’s Books. The books are selected by committee and are defined as “Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children’s books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children’s interests in exemplary ways.”